Hee.
You know the tweet was in reply to a question so maybe it was regarding a UK release.
Illyria: Wesley's dead. I'm feeling grief for him. I can't seem to control it. I wish to do more violence. Spike: Well, wishes just happen to be horses today.
'Not Fade Away'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
sumi - Jan 26, 2011 11:38:15 am PST #13727 of 28287
Art Crawl!!!
Laga - Jan 31, 2011 10:31:33 am PST #13728 of 28287
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
sumi - Jan 31, 2011 10:35:38 am PST #13729 of 28287
Art Crawl!!!
No!
(Did you see how many sections of that course there were? Do they all have the same reading list?)
Laga - Jan 31, 2011 10:49:09 am PST #13730 of 28287
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I did not, I only followed the link from The Daily What (where they said this is an HONORS course!)
Strega - Jan 31, 2011 11:06:58 am PST #13731 of 28287
The section is just the specific course #.
We will read stories about the monstrous, the supernatural, and the horrible -- that is, stories that center their plots on some of the main issues that concern students of fiction, for instance, the differences between the real and the unreal, between life-affirming love and unhealthy seduction, and between artistic craftsmanship and mass appeal.
I think Twilight could be quite instructive about that last distinction.
Amy - Jan 31, 2011 11:09:03 am PST #13732 of 28287
Because books.
The last two, actually.
Gris - Jan 31, 2011 11:13:39 am PST #13733 of 28287
Hey. New board.
An honors course that's focused on supernatural tales (reading Frankenstein, Dracula, Turning of the Screw)
I think it might be kind of interesting to read Twilight immediately after reading Dracula in a college literature course. I rather hate Twilight, but it's actually ridiculously fun to talk/argue about. My wife and I do it all the time. She's a fan, and also an English teacher who defends it on two fronts - first, as good storytelling, if not good story (which, since I read the first three book in about three days is hard for me to argue - bad writing, but hopelessly addictive) and second as, essentially, bodice-rippers with teen appeal. Only without the actual bodice ripping, which actually, I think, increases the teen girl appeal. She recently convinced me to read Outlander, which I also didn't like much, which I think appeals to her in the same place.
Strix - Jan 31, 2011 12:17:05 pm PST #13734 of 28287
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Now, see, I like the Outlander series. There is no comparing that heroine to Bella, or Jamie to Edward. The Outlander couple is mature, competent, self-realized and it way passes the Bedchel test.
Twilight...does not.
Gris, does your wife follow Smart Bitches, Trashy Books? Because a bodice-ripper, if by which she means historical romance, really does not necessarily equal badly written tripe.
Amy - Jan 31, 2011 12:19:56 pm PST #13735 of 28287
Because books.
Oh god, Outlander is one of my favorite books ever. Claire and Jamie rock. And Diana Gabaldon actually knows how to write.
Barb - Jan 31, 2011 12:25:51 pm PST #13736 of 28287
“Not dead yet!”
I'm with Amy on this one.
And also object to the term bodice-ripper as hopelessly outdated.